Kate McKinnon dropped out of The Dropout

Two years ago it was announced that Kate McKinnon would be playing the founder of Theranos Elizabeth Holmes in the Hulu limited series, The dropout. She was also going to be one of the executive producers of the show. It seemed like the perfect casting decision; McKinnon is pretty much like him and is good at playing weirdos. But alas, nothing of the gold from the pre-pandemic era can remain. Thursday night, Deadline announced that McKinnon had dropped out The dropout. No context was given as to why she decided not to play the prodigy turned fraudster, but contractual outages have become somewhat of a staple in the COVID era, with schedules being reshaped by shutdowns of production..

A source said Deadline that even with that A last-minute snag to production plans, the limited series is still in the works. There must be another blonde with blue eyes available in Hollywood, right?

And if you were determined to see McKinnon playing a real kook, don’t worry. She is always in demand to play Joe Exotic’s nemesis Carole Baskin in NBC’s coming soon King tigertv show based on, Exotic joe.